Comment by trangus_1985

This is horrifying. Does this only affect iMessage, or the photos library? Is it remote? Does it require physical access?

As I understand it: it's a tool (that sends a command of some sort) that compels an iphone to perform the hashing match operation, and output results. Is that correct? Does it notify the user?

If I had to build it within apple's privacy framework, that'd probably be my approach: remote command causes sepos unlock of photos library (even running the job on sepos?) to do photo scanning. sepos returns hashes that match